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Coordinated Incident Management - Safety Committee Description:
The Coordinated Incident Management - Safety Committee raises the visibility of safety in all Coalition activities, and facilitates, supports, and enhances the coordination and implementation of interagency efforts in response to major incidents. Within this Committee are Regional HOGs groups -- an acronym from the previous committee name of "Highway Operations Group" -- which address regional geographies from Maine to Florida. "
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Join the NTIMC TIM Team Network
 The I-95 Corridor Coalition is a Member of the National Traffic Incident Management Coalition (NTIMC). NTIMC has a TIM Team Network -- if you would like to join, please visit the following link:
 Join the TIM Network
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Featured Incident Management - Safety Projects
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| Southern Traffic Incident Exchange | Quick Clearance Toolkit | Towing TRIP Program | StreetSmart - A Teen Driving Program | 3D Virtual Incident Management | Ten-Percenters Program | Crash Data Reporting |  This project will take the necessary initial steps to define, develop, and implement a Southern Region IM pilot program to increase efficiencies regarding interjurisdictional incident management coordination in the Southern States, and will interface with the IEN to effectuate Corridor-wide communications and notifications capabilities.
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Download STIX Overview Brochure  |
 A Quick Clearance Toolkit to help in initiating or improving Quick Clearance programs and activities in jurisdictions. The contents of this easy-to-use, "A-Z" quick clearance implementation guide are provided on this page and include:
- Quick Clearance Toolkit - A roadmap for developing a Traffic Incident Management Program, providing policy makers and practictioners in traffic incident management with handy and ready-to-use tools to assist them in providing more effective TIM practices in general, but with primary emphasis on quick clearance.
- Quick Clearance Videos - This collection provides a variety of Quick Clearance program highlights, in interesting and educational formats.
- Quick Clearance Documents - A tremendous resource of documents, from existing programs, related to best practices in statutory, regulatory, policy, administrative and operational issues.
- Quick Clearance Workshops - I-95 Corridor Coalition is offering a series of workshops to present Quick Clearance Implementation Best Practices. There are two Quick Clearance Workshops available - an Executive Forum and a Responder Workshop.
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Towing & Recovery Incentive Program - TRIP
A collaborative effort led by Georgia DOT with partners FHWA, the I-95 Corridor Coalition, and the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority, in close coordination with the Traffic Incident Management Enhancement Task Force, developed the Towing and Recovery Incentive Program, or TRIP, to help to reduce the impact of major traffic incidents in Metro Atlanta, while meeting TIME’s aggressive clearance goal of 90 minutes or less. Only towing companies with fully trained operators with national or industry certification in advanced heavy towing and recovery may participate in TRIP.
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View TRIP Brochure
View TRIP Video
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Numerous Coalition States have requested assistance in presenting StreetSmart in their jurisdictions. This project will enable those presentations to occur in the Corridor. Project activities will include: contact and coordination with the States and the Miami Dade SAFE organization to schedule and conduct the StreetSmart presentations, identification of and coordination with local high schools and colleges to encourage attendance including appropriate city/town/educational institution contact and coordination, law enforcement and public safety entity coordination, venue and logistics arrangements including transport of students to/from the presentation venue, and other such activities as required to conduct the StreetSmart sessions.
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 I-95 Corridor Coalition is creating an intensive training program that uses three-dimensional, multi-player computer gaming simulation technology and distance-based learning technologies to test, validate, certify, and reinforce the dissemination of best incident management practices across the Coalition region. The three-dimensional software program will enable practical, scenario-based, interactive, real-time incident management training for numerous responders, trainers and “victims” simultaneously at a variety of locations. Participants will include state, county, and local transportation departments, toll road authorities, law enforcement agencies, fire departments, emergency service providers, medical examiners, hazardous materials handlers, towing companies, the media, and other operating agencies and entities across the Corridor. The training program can be accessed from any location with an Internet connection thereby reducing training and travel costs and enabling increased participation.
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This project focuses on small groups of persistent traffic violators – i.e., the so-called ten percenters -- who are responsible for a significant portion of the serious injury and fatal collisions on the highways. The primary goal of the project is to identify effective means for addressing the ten percenters to improve safety for the motoring public across the I-95 corridor. The actual percent represented by this group in a particular traffic safety problem – e.g., drinking and driving, speeding, non-use of seat belts – varies somewhat but the proportion is not sufficiently different to justify changing the highly communicative phrase “ten percenter”.
The project tasks are systematically and strategically organized to answer a set of key questions:
- Who are the ten percenters and to what extent do they contribute to traffic safety problems?
- Are there differences in the extent and characteristics of the problem across member states in the I-95 corridor?
- What safety strategies and programs are currently in place to deal with them, both within coalition states as well as other states and countries?
- What are best practices for dealing effectively with these persistent offenders?
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Crash data collection and availability has long been very limited, yet is essential to improving safety and efficiency on the Corridor’s transportation network. Results can identify areas which have need of specific safety applications, technologies, programs, practices, enforcement, and other activities. The timely transmission of incident crash data is key to identifying areas and situations particularly prone to incidents and their causes, particularly with respect to commercial vehicles. This project will study current accident reporting systems and procedures in place in the I-95 Corridor, and compare results from states which utilize these systems with those that do not to determine if these systems enable more timely and accurate data provision to law enforcement, departments of transportation, DMVs, and other entities.
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